Problem with 1 HD Channel

I have a Sony Bravia TV hooked to a Comcast HD cable box (via
component). The TV is set for Auto wide (i.e. on an HD channel it will
display full screen and on a 4:3 channel it will display with balck
side bars. This has worked perfect for 1.5 years. Now within the past
few days, one HD channel (Versus HD) is displayed on the TV as though
it were a 4:3 channel rather than HD. I have to manually change the
display from normal to full for this channel. Every other channel
works as it should.

Am I correct in assuming it's not a problem with the TV since all
other channels work correctly? It's like on Versus HD the TV is
receiving (or not receiving) something that makes it think that it is
a non-HD channel. I've chatted with Comcast customer support twice to
no avail. Any help on where to look would be appreciated.

Thanks.

On Apr 21, 10:41*pm, wrote:
I have a Sony Bravia TV hooked to a Comcast HD cable box (via
component). The TV is set for Auto wide (i.e. on an HD channel it will
display full screen and on a 4:3 channel it will display with balck
side bars. This has worked perfect for 1.5 years. Now within the past
few days, one HD channel (Versus HD) is displayed on the TV as though
it were a 4:3 channel rather than HD. I have to manually change the
display from normal to full for this channel. Every other channel
works as it should.

Am I correct in assuming it's not a problem with the TV since all
other channels work correctly? It's like on Versus HD the TV is
receiving (or not receiving) something that makes it think that it is
a non-HD channel. I've chatted with Comcast customer support twice to
no avail. Any help on where to look would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Usually on a cable box, you can set it to output it 1080i for
everything, so that the HD channels will be 16:9 full screen and the
4:3 channels will have black bars It sounds as if you have the box set
on "pass-through", and letting the TV dicipher what is HD and what is
not so it knows when to put the black bars. As far as VersusHD, a lot
of their shows are not HD and will have black bars. the hockey
playoffs I know are in HD so you can check at night. But if you know
for sure the content being shown is in HD, try turning off the "auto
wide" feature on the TV and see what happens.